General News

Zia Zafar, 31, a U.S. citizen and the lead suspect in the January 6 shooting of a consular officer from the U.S. Consulate General in Guadalajara, has been returned to the United States after being expelled from Mexico. 

As a result of January 1 increases in the cost of gasoline, online taxi service Uber will raise its prices in the Guadalajara metropolitan area, the company announced Thursday in a press release.  

A man arrested on suspicion of shooting at a official from the U.S. Consulate General Friday will be deported to the United States, the federal Attorney General’s Office and Foreign Relations Ministry said in a joint communique issued Sunday afternoon.

Upgrades at three municipal Cruz Verde (Green Cross) facilities in the metropolitan area will offer thousands of citizens improved access to low-cost emergency medical services.

State police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting of a U.S. consular official at a Guadalajara shopping mall on Friday. The Fiscalía General  de Jalisco (State Attorney General’s Office, FGE) sent out a tweet just before 10 a.m. Sunday announcing the detention of the alleged agressor, who was later named by media sources as Zafar Zia, 31.

Mexican citizens angered at the hefty January 1 increases in the price of gasoline staged multiple demonstrations in both Guadalajara and Chapala this week, with police in the state capital using tear gas to disperse one group of protestors outside the San Juan de Dios Market Monday.

A consular officer from the U.S. Consulate General is in “stable condition” in hospital after being shot in the chest Friday afternoon in Guadalajara.

Some readers may feel that 2016 was a year that should be quickly dispatched into the distant memory banks.